Add this as a superclass of any Django model to allow making copies of instances of that model:
class Entry(models.Model, CloneableMixin):
[...]
e = Entry.objects.get(...)
e_clone = e.clone()
e_clone.title = 'Cloned Entry'
e.save()
The new object is saved during the clone process and ManyToMany relations are copied as well.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | import copy
class ClonableMixin(object):
def clone(self):
"""Return an identical copy of the instance with a new ID."""
if not self.pk:
raise ValueError('Instance must be saved before it can be cloned.')
duplicate = copy.copy(self)
# Setting pk to None tricks Django into thinking this is a new object.
duplicate.pk = None
duplicate.save()
# ... but the trick loses all ManyToMany relations.
for field in self._meta.many_to_many:
source = getattr(self, field.attname)
destination = getattr(duplicate, field.attname)
for item in source.all():
destination.add(item)
return duplicate
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On django 1.2, this snippet works for me only if i set both pk and id to None:
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